Shaili Chopra is an Indian business journalist, author and entrepreneur. She is the founder of ''
SheThePeople.TV
''SheThePeople.TV'' is an Indian digital media website that focuses on women related news and entertainment in video format, though "The Women's Channel" has a large amount of text based content as well. It was launched in 2015 by an Indian journ ...
,'' a platform to empower women with stories of role models and inspire them with a changing conversation on women and what matters to them. As a business journalist, she is known for working at
''NDTV-profit'' and
''ETNOW'' and has won the 2012
Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism among various other awards. She then switched to being an entrepreneur and wrote four books. Her ventures are India's women's channel SheThePeople.TV and GolfingIndian.com. Her books include Feminist Rani by Penguin, When I Was 25 by Random House, Big Connect- Social Media and Indian Politics by
Random House
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, and Birdies in Business by
Times Books
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Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969, when The New York Times C ...
.
Early life
Shaili Chopra was born in Jalandhar on 21 July 1981 in Punjab to Anil and Suman.
Anil Chopra is a retired fighter pilot from
Indian Air Force
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its complement of personnel and aircraft assets ranks third amongst the air forces of the world. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial w ...
. In 1998, Chopra finished her schooling from
Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute
Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute, located at Subroto Park, Delhi Cantonment, India, is a school run by the Indian Air Force Educational and Cultural Society. It was founded in 1985.
The school has an auditorium named as Rabindralaya. There are ...
, New Delhi. Chopra finished her master's degree in Broadcast and Television from 2002 batch,
The Asian College of Journalism,
Chennai
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. She trained in broadcast with the BBC at journalism school. She has worked at
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
,
NDTV
New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ...
and
ETNOW.
Professional life
She worked with NDTV 24 x 7 as Markets & Corporate Affairs Editor and NDTV Profit as the Senior News Editor-Corporate for over five years and then with ET NOW for three years. She has also covered international events like the
G-20
The G20 or Group of Twenty is an intergovernmental forum comprising 19 countries and the European Union (EU). It works to address major issues related to the global economy, such as international financial stability, climate change mitigation, ...
,
WEF@Davos, The
Bretton Woods Conference
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2011, India Economic Summit and the World Retail Congress. She was named one of India's 50 most influential women in media, marketing and advertising by
''Impact'' Magazine.
Chopra and her husband Shivnath Thukral also reported live from outside the
Taj Mahal Hotel in
Mumbai
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during the
terror attacks of 26/11. She was the lead anchor of ''ETNOW'' before she became an entrepreneur. She also had a show on golf called "Tee Time With Shaili".
She started a digital website called 'SheThePeople' in 2015, which focuses on women journalism.
Anand Mahindra
Anand Gopal Mahindra (born 1 May 1955) is an Indian billionaire businessman, and the chairman of Mahindra Group, a Mumbai-based business conglomerate. The group operates in aerospace, agribusiness, aftermarket, automotive, components, construc ...
has invested in SheThePeople.TV. It was also an official partner for government initiatives such as "
Start-Up India, Stand Up India" and "
Make in India
Make in India is an initiative by the Government of India to create and encourage companies to develop, manufacture and assemble products made in India and incentivize dedicated investments into manufacturing. The policy approach was to creat ...
".
Awards
She won the News Television Award for the Best English Reporter across India in 2007 and later in 2008, her business-golf show Business on Course, won the Best Show Award. In March 2010, Chopra won the Best Business Anchor award and was felicitated with FICCI's Woman Achiever Award. Chopra was awarded the
Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Business Journalism at the Indian Express RNG Awards 2012.
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References
External links
Interviews
* Women for action: http://www.womenforaction.org/2017/03/interview-with-prolific-journalist-in.html
* Indian CEO: https://indianceo.in/interviews/shaili-chopra-founder-shethepeople-talks-indianceo/
* Personal Life and goals: https://thehauterfly.com/women-on-top/women-in-digital-shaili-chopra-she-the-people/
* Feminist Rani: https://penguin.co.in/news-and-press-releases/womens-day-penguin-excited-announce-acquisition-feminist-rani-meghna-pant-shaili-chopra/
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